Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

WOW WOW WOW WOW.......... BIGGY.............................................just breaking

John Mann MP ‏@JohnMannMP 9m minutes ago
Will Tory MP Mark Spencer defect to UKIP? Panic sets in among careerist Tories ahead of Clacton by-election

http://www.johnmannmp.com/corridors-of-power?Entry=e74910f0-be3e-5df4-8577-423dd3cf9078

Cheers Fred read it, was aware this time thanks, just look above........ohhhhhhh what a fantastic day.

Does mansion tax apply to the property or the person owning It?


And how will trust funders be effected??

I note the article in the link above mentions 'disgraced MP, Neil Hamilton' who is now a UKIP member.

Since the big 'MP's Expenses Scandal', Hamilton's 'history' is now almost irrelevant. Having seen him orate on Question Time', I like what he has to say, anyhow.

UKIP are steadily slowly picking up support.

Stand by for another coalition government. But who will be coalitioning with who?

I can see why hes thinking about defecting with that tiny majority.

Bet their were a few counts at the last GE.

Exec.

What about you and me for the coalition.

If the parties fragment anymore we could need only one vote each!

8-)

Our NHS may be about to fall into an abyss, but the Government have sent 750 military personnel to Sierra Leone to deal with the Ebola virus. Is that in addition to the £250million this country has already donated?

The Libs interpretation of the mansion tax is extra bands of council tax. They would use the current valuations as a base and revalue properties based on property inflation for given areas. Any properties close to the margin that might have crossed into the tax bands would be individually revalued. That would cut down on the work to revalue properties.

Interesting article on 'alien life' biological particles which have been found out in space using sterile slides launched into the Perseid meteor shower in 2013.

These have been found to have biological cosmic dust on them and absolutely no 'earth-like dust' and so it is concluded such biological particles must have come from the carbon and oxygen on comets.

The further conclusion is that this is the most likely scenario for how 'life' might have kicked off on earth.

Scientists say: Likely proof we are descended from extra terrestrials

I hope you enjoy listening to this and I don't think you will have ever heard anything like it before. It's called 'polyphonic overtone singing':

The important part of the alien story is the phrase, 'in an interview with the Daily Express'. That really says it all. It is akin to 'in an interview with the Beano'.

Haystack

I would have thought you would like that news , being anti- Bible

Hays what do you think of the upcoming Tory defection to UKIP.

I am not anti Bible. I am anti religion (that includes the bible). I am not sure the story constitutes news.

At times like this, I get to be anti-Haystack.

The 'Daily Express bit' is utterly and totally irrelevant and the Express is only mentioned by the Independent's journalist out of sheer politenes, IMHO.

There are a number of factual pieces of evidence in the piece, which 95% point to the fact that the particles under discussion did not and could not have ascended from the Earth.

Q. What has Oxygen and what has Carbon?

A. A comet.

Etc., etc. Hence the 95% certainty, that the biological particles came from outer space.

The article doesn't warrant the headline 'Alien life found above Derbyshire proves we're descended from extraterrestrials' say scientists. It has all the hallmarks of a trumped Daily Express story.

The story was published 3 days earlier in the Daily Express under the headline

The incredible picture that 'PROVES' there is life on other planets.

Of course there's life on other planets!

Are they space faring species, or stuck on the ground like us (for now)?

Given the constraints of E=Mc^2, and a suitable propellent to cover the quite huge distances involved, it's unlikely we will see any martians anytime soon imo.


But the size of the cosmos is staggeringly huge...I find it hard to believe there isn't something out there...altho I suspect it unlikely to resemble




GORT KLAATU BARADA NIKTO

I think there is life on other planets and I think we will NEVER see them in anyone's life. It just isn't possible to travel fast enough to get there ever.

Are you sure or is that another belief or bible?